Newswire | Europe

0

The Moldovan Public Procurement Development Strategy 2016-2020 is now in a testing phase and is due to become fully operational in 2018. eProcurement will then become mandatory for public bodies. A tool called MTender has been developed to ensure transparency at all stages of the...

Since July 1, it has been obligatory for public procurement selection criteria in Croatia to be based on ‘most economically advantageous’ bids rather than lowest price. A practice commonly preferred across European nations. The State Commission for the Control of Public Procurement Procedures...

G-Cloud, now the Digital Marketplace, the hub for buying IT has been one of the UK government’s great success stories. It is now looking at overseas expansion and replicating the model to make the procurement of IT services and skills more efficient and cost-effective for public sector...

Since 2013 public sector pay rises in England and Wales have been capped at 1% – below the rate of inflation. That has now been lifted, with greater ‘flexibility’ given, to Police and Prison Officers – actions for other parts of the public sector have yet to be decided. But Unions are angry...

European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an association of civil and human rights organisations from across Europe which defends rights and freedoms in the digital environment. It is currently championing for public sector software that fosters the sharing of good ideas and solutions for everyone....

The Minister of State for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection has called for a competitive challenge to increase collaboration between Irish public sector bodies and SMEs in order to come up with unique and innovative solutions to public sector needs....

The Dutch National Police Central Works Council (CWC) has been accused of exorbitantly wasting taxpayer money through lack of supervision on budgets and expenses. A committee on behalf of the Dutch lower parliament suspects former police chief of not acting sufficiently enough to combat overruns on...

The Slovak Spectator reports that Parliament has elected a lawyer as the new head of the Public Procurement Office (ÚVO). He replaced the current head on September 14. The new head has not worked for the office before, but the PM believes this will bring a ‘sideways’ look at the office. The...